My story begins with my birth that is much it. That chapter really can't be written because I wasn't paying that much attention the first five years of my life. Going into the second chapter is highlights of my childhood a childhood captivated by daydreaming of acceptance of who I am and who I may become both just a dreams.
One of those many dreams was to become a writer, and when I think back long enough my first influence as a kid growing up was the some what fictional caricature John-Boy Walton from the TV series The Waltons based on the book Spencer's Mountain by Earl Hamner Jr. fallowing the life of rule Virginia community during the great depression and WWII. I will not go on about that because if you are reading this and if what I am writing interesting that might be your next stop in the internet universe.
As you can't tell I never did much with that dream of being a writer, as you read this you see it is riddled with grammatical errors, miss spelling and just bad grammar. As I write this I hear Truman Capote with girlie voice tell me "you are boring these people". But guess that is because I just watched the movie. Sorry to say I never read one of his books.
During the 90's I did take up poetry for a time. The inspiration was thick in those days note book after note book of poems. When a poem would come to me I would write it down on yellow legal pad and my format was like a song with stanzas and a repeating chorus. The poetry muse was so strong it made it hard to read any thing else because I would see a word or phase and just think about that and out would come a poem with out finishing the book and not knowing if the butler did it.
What lead me to the strong need to write poetry was Alice Walker to me she is the mother of poetry.
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